I borrowed one of those ATV things. You just need to get out to the sledge at the side of the house."It smiled for a brief moment before saying, "Than...ks, Dad. I'm sure I can make it that far."Bill wrapped a large, thick blanket around the beast to hide it from anyone who might be out at this late hour and opened the door. Once it was lying on the sledge, he covered it with another blanket, replaced the cartridge in the IV unit and started the engine. It was asleep again before they even pulled. I needed it to become 'actual.' It was like there was this clock ticking away, and the longer we waited, the antsier I got. We, as a couple, were still too ephemeral for my tastes, and I felt like I'd waited long enough to finally see what the fuss had been all about. A tiny part of me was also worried that it'd be weird, for him anyway. And I wanted to know as soon as possible if we were going to have any issues about that. But mainly I was horny.John got the door open, and while I knew his. "He looked at my eyes and I at his. They were both red-rimmed. We bothstarted to say something and stopped. Just then, my phone buzzed. Ihad a message - from James.'How'd it go? Are you OK?'I wasn't ready to answer her. 'It went as to be expected.' The liewas easier than the truth.'Do you want to talk about it?''Not right now.''OK. I love you.' Really, I thought? Really? You love me? Which iswhy I'm a pregnant girl. Who you tricked into getting pregnant. Thendidn't tell and almost. Was food their Achilles Heel? Hunter-gathers needed lots of land to live. Human hunter-gatherers required about ten square kilometers for sustained existence—given that the land in question met certain criteria. Very rich land would support more, and the poor lands of the Arctic or Sahara required hundreds of square kilometers to keep one hunter-gatherer fat and happy.By contrast, "traditional agriculture" would support 500 times the humans that hunter-gatherer technology could. Experimental.